Founders Den may not get the attention of TechStars or Y Combinator, but it’s quickly becoming a landing pad for some of those accelerators' most promising graduates.

Tuesday evening, seven new companies housed for the last six months in the exclusive, invitation-only, downtown San Francisco, co-working space presented their businesses to investors and other founders.

There’s Survata, born at Y Combinator, which helps publishers monetize their content without putting up a paywall. Instead, readers access stories after responding to surveys created by brands, agencies and universities.

Namo Media has $1.9 million in funding from Google Ventures and others to build out its unobtrusive mobile advertising platform. VidlQ received $800,000 in funding for its tools and analytics for video producers on YouTube. MOVL already has more than 300,000 downloads of its tools for creating content for smart TVs and other screens, not to mention $500,000 from Mark Cuban. Rollbar has 200 customers using its error-tracking software for developers.

Founders Den doesn’t promise any funding, but its roster of handpicked companies have access to a list of advisers that includes some of the most recognized startup founders, CEOs and angel investors in the nation. There’s Dennis Crowley of Foursquare; Drew Houston of Dropbox; Jay Adelson of Digg; Justin Kan of Justin.tv; Phil Libin of Evernote and executives and investors with experience at Twitter, Facebook, eBay, TechCrunch, AOL and Yahoo.

Managing partners have impressive resumes too. All four are running startups, investing in startups and mentoring other startups. Jason Johnson is behind TEDxSF, RethinkBooks and InterQuest Communications (acquired by Darwin Networks) and has nearly 20 years of experience marketing technology products and services. Jonathan Abrams runs a news aggregation and sharing startup called Nuzzel but previously founded Socializr, Friendster and HotLinks. Michael Levit started Spigot Inc. in 2008 but previously worked for Vendio, AOL Broadband and Bluelight.com. Zack Bogue is a co-founder of the new early-stage venture fund for Big Data startups called Data Collective.

Laura Baverman is a business journalist newly relocated to Raleigh, North Carolina. Before her move, Laura spent nearly four years tracking Cincinnati's growing technology and startup scene for the Cincinnati Enquirer.

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